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My first mag build

Well... I finally pulled the trigger and ordered up an new Xvalve and ule body from agd.. Been looking around to pick up a nice used set but they are going for way too much right now on the used market to not justify purchasing them new. So upon their arrival I will have all the peices to complete my first mag build. I'm focused on a light weight mech build for open woodsball play. I think it will be a very fun gun to complete and shoot and completly different from my normal vintage matrix obsession that I have. Here's what the build consists of:

i'll get pics up in the next few days... I'm still on the fence on putting money down on the XULE carbon body. They are sexy as hell but I don't know if i could justify the money right now on that when the agd ule body will probally due just fine. but then again the body would match my deadly winds barrel and foregrip..hmmmmmm.. atleast I still have time to think about that one

the one great thing with Mags are, is the modular design which you can, with dropping 2 screws go from what you have to what you want. just save up, and get what you want. the worst thing thing is that there are always new designs and parts that are being made that just beg you to take that loan out, sell a kidney and use that tax return for nefarious reasons.

I acutally ordered just about everything but the valve and body from this site. Nice and new parts. Shockingly enough what some of these mags are worth. I just put together a complete Shocktech matrix from a body kit I bought off line and have a lot less in that than I will have in this mag.. But I really love how simple the valve design is on these once you understand them.

For pure performance, a brand new ULE custom for $500 or so might be the best deal in the mechanical semi auto arena. You can build/buy a mag for >$1000 out of specialized parts and it will perform EXACTLY the same.

got her together and put pics up in the first post.. I'm really happy with how the build turned out. Full weight of the complete gun, asa, and barrel was 1.84 LBS and it came in under my 2lb goal easily.. I'm excited to put paint through it. I air'd it up and there where no leaks but I cant get the damn thing to fire yet. I started slowly turning in the velocity adjustment untill the valve got air and i slowly took it to full adjustment and still it didn't cycle nor make noise or leak. The on/off pin did pressurize and the trigger did have resistance the whole time I was doing this. I know there is some tuning involved with the new xvalve with it's level 10 but it may be also because my take output pressure is too low for the gun to operate being at under 500psi. Can you get the gun to cycle properly at that pressure or is there something else wrong and I should start using the smaller spring and try different shims out????

I'm in Roscoe, IL.. which is basically on the WI/IL boarder just north of Rockford..

I will re shim my ninja reg and get the output level up to 900psi and then go from there. I know they require more input presure than a standard gun but I was hoping to get it set up with what air I did have here at the house in the mean time... I will re-shim my tank reg this weekend and get it filled when I'm at team practice and get the output pressure to 900psi hopefully and then see what's going on then.

Raper, I clicked on your thread for the first time and went wow. I'm currently building an Automag as well and mine looks exactly like yours, Same exact parts. Great minds think alike I suppose.

Nice!.. I'm still waiting on my CCM feedneck to show up and it will be pretty much complete. I will have to see if I am going to order up the XULE carbonfiber body or not. Once I get it going and put paint though it, then I'll have a better idea of if I want to spend more money on this gun, or if I'm happy with it and want to leave it how it is..

On a side not.. I am not very happy with the finsh of my ULE body from agd.. It was ordered new and right from them but the finish is kinda crappy on the anno. It a really dull satin black and It was suppose to be gloss black from my understanding. It is in between a gloss and a dust finish and is really gray'd out.. Any ideas on that... The finish alone is going to make me order up that XULE body..lol

...but I cant get the damn thing to fire yet...
...and the trigger did have resistance the whole time I was doing this....

When you have it aired up, is there any gap between the trigger and the trigger pin? If not, that's your problem. You want to adjust the trigger pin so there is a gap about the thickness of a credit card between the trigger and trigger pin.

Originally Posted by RAPER

I'm in Roscoe, IL

I'm in McHenry, which is about an hour away from you. I have a friend who was from Roscoe.

in those pictures the marker wasn't gassed up yet.. once the marker has air there is a slight gap between the pin and the trigger.. I'm thinking its just the LP output pressure from my tank causing the issues (i knew going into it that the gun needed more input pressure to run at a "peak" performance, but was hoping lower would work for setup purposes). I'll i'm sure it will be quite fine once thats addressed.. If not I will for sure post up and let you all know.. Thanks for the willingess to have my stop by and help, I really appreciate it and you are all a bunch of stand up guys in my book